Apple Tart

The apple tart, also called little boat, is a filled dessert made with shortcrust pastry or puff pastry. However, they allow a great variety of flavors depending on the ingredients with which you make the filling, including salty ones, such as fish or chicken.

Apple Tart

Ingredients

For the mass

150 g of flour
25 g of baking powder
20g sugar
70 g margarine
50 ml cold water

For the filling

6 apples
25 g of flour
100g sugar
15 g margarine
10 g ground cinnamon

Utensils

Foot mold
Mixing bowl
Ingredient containers
Sieve
Rack

Preparation of the apple tart

We prepare the dough

Sift the flour, baking powder, and sugar into a large bowl.
Add the cold margarine helping you with a fork, in this way you will achieve the right texture for the dough.

When the dough is granulated, add the water and knead until you get a homogeneous mixture.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a few minutes.

We prepare the filling

Wash the apples and remove the skin.
Cut the apples into thin slices and place them in a container with cold water and a little sugar.
Remove the apples after a minute and sprinkle the fruit with the flour, a cup of sugar and the cinnamon.
Take the dough out of the fridge, remove the plastic wrap and let it rest a bit.
Divide the dough into two parts and roll them into a ball.
Roll out the dough on the floured kitchen table until it is a few millimeters thick.
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Take a pie pan, butter and flour the bottom and sides of it.
Place one of the halves inside the mold and line the bottom well.
Put the apple filling inside.

Cover with the second part of the dough and seal the edges with the help of water and a fork.
Sprinkle the surface with a generous amount of sugar.

We bake our apple tart

Put the tart in the oven for approximately 25 minutes or until the dough is golden on the outside.
Remove your cake from the oven and let it cool in the mold for 15 minutes.
Unmold the dessert and let it finish resting on a rack until it is completely cold.
Once it cools you can proceed to cut it and serve it. In case you are going to store it, we recommend reserving it in the fridge so that it is better preserved.

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Data of interest

The margarine must be cold when you prepare your apple tart, otherwise you will not achieve the texture of the shortcrust pastry.

You will know that the apple tart is ready when it looks golden on the outside and the filling is bubbly.
Mixing the butter is easier if you place margarine cubes in the center of the flour. Start adding the other ingredients from the center out.
When you cover the base of the mold with the dough, remember to prick it with a fork to prevent it from rising.
In case you don’t want to make the dough, you can use puff pastry.
For the filling you can not only use fruits, you can also fill with creams and a wide variety of products, including salty ones.
When stirring the flour with the cold margarine, we want it to trap as much of the gluten as possible, separating it from the wet ingredients. Gluten provides elasticity to doughs, which is precisely why we try to isolate it.
If you wish, you can prepare a meringue to cover the apple tart as decoration, another option that you can use is whipped cream and chopped fruit.

If you want to make a grid-style decoration, stretch the dough with the rolling pin and cut a circle with the guide of the mold. The circle is cut into strips and the filling is covered by making a basket braid.